Seagrass meadows: mangroves of the north

In our northern latitudes we may not have mangroves, but we have seagrass instead to protect our coasts and provide a nursery for the likes of pipefish and sea horses (in England anyway). Back in the summer Action West Loch

Common pool resources and the Firth of Clyde

Yesterday I was at a meeting in Campbeltown called by the Scottish Inshore Fisheries Trust (SIFT) at which were gathered fishing boat skippers, community activists and local tradition bearers. It proved to be a heated meeting, but ended in mutual

The marine diversity of my bioregion

As a inhabitant of my bioregion, which I shall call West Argyll and the Islands after the landscape zoning project for Scotland (see associated post), I am aware that the sea always plays a vital role. It is where our